AJAY MAKEN

New Delhi: The Congress on Monday appointed former union minister Ajay Maken as chief of the party in Delhi.
Congress president Sonia Gandhi also made five appointments to the party's various state units.
Former state minister Ghulam Ahmed Mir has been appointed party chief in Jammu and Kashmir and former union minister...

New Delhi: In a major reshuffle ahead of possible elevation of Rahul Gandhi as party president at the All India Congress Committee session next month, Congress on Monday appointed five new Pradesh Congress Committee chiefs and one regional Congress Committee President.
The reshuffle had a clear imprint of Rahul Gandhi in...

New Delhi: Congress general secretary Ajay Maken will be the chief of the party unit in Delhi where Congress suffered a wipe-out in assembly polls in the national capital. The decision is expected to be announced in a day or two, sources said, indicating that some other changes could also...

New Delhi: The split within the Congress is out in the open after the party could not even bag a single seat in the recent assembly elections in Delhi. After former Delhi chief minister Sheila Dikshit accused Congress's campaign committee chief in Delhi Ajay Maken of not taking other party...

New Delhi: The ongoing war between former Delhi chief minister Sheila Dikshit and Congress' face in the just-held Delhi Assembly elections Ajay Maken came out in the open with the former accusing him of not taking other party leaders along.
Speaking to CNN-IBN on Thursday, Dikshit said, "I pity Maken. He...

New Delhi: Voices of discomfiture grew in Congress with leaders suggesting that all sections were not taken along, which brought this ignominy as the party failed to open its account in Delhi Assmebly polls.
"Highly disappointed with the fate of Congress in Delhi. It's sad to see it like this. Wish...

Delhi elections are a watershed for all the major contestants. While the Aam Aadmi Party is euphoric with its out-of-the-world performance, Bharatiya Janata Party is licking its wounds would while the Congress has scored a golden duck.
While a poor show was on the cards for Congress which has been...

New Delhi: The Arvind Kejriwal-led Aam Aadmi Party on Tuesday registered a clean sweep victory in Delhi Assembly Polls. In a 70-membered Delhi Assembly, AAP bagged 67 seats restricting the Bharatiya Janata Party at only three seats while Congress failed to even open its account.
While big players like BJP's...

New Delhi: With Congress decimated in Delhi elections, its senior leader Manish Tewari on Tuesday said the party's "ideological construct" needs to be revisited as Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) has eaten up the space. The former Union Minister also felt that the outcome of the polls could have been different...

New Delhi: A tsunami, a clean sweep, a thunderstorm or a duststorm- call it what you may but one thing that is crystal clear is that the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) has done what no other party has been able to do in the electoral history of India. In a...

New Delhi: Annihilated in Delhi polls, a shocked Congress today promised to "reinvent" itself ànd revisit its "idealogical construct". Party chief Sonia Gandhi and vice president Rahul Gandhi congratulated Arvind Kejriwal and Aam Aadmi party for their landslide victory saying they "respect" the verdict.
The party's face for the polls...

New Delhi: Congress' chief ministerial candidate Ajay Maken was all set for a humiliating defeat as he was trailing in the third position with a mere 10408 votes in the Sadar Bazar constituency.
AAP candidate Som Dutt was leading in the seat with 47491 votes while BJP candidate Praveen Kumar Jain...

New Delhi: With trends projecting a defeat for Congress in Delhi Assembly elections, Ajay Maken on Tuesday resigned from the post of General Secretary taking responsibility for the party's debacle in Delhi polls.
He said, "I have not right to stay on this position and should resign from my post."
"I was...

New Delhi: A year after its 49-day stint in power ended abruptly, Arvind Kejriwal's Aam Aadmi party (AAP) is set to return to power in Delhi, exit polls said on Saturday after record voting in the assembly elections.
Bharatiya Janata party's (BJP) chief ministerial candidate Kiran Bedi has gone on...

It has been one of the most fiercely contested state elections in India and now the fate of 673 candidates will be know in a few hours as counting for the 70-member Delhi Assembly starts at 8 am on Tuesday.
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New Delhi: Congress General Secretary Ajay Maken could resign from his post if he fails to win from the Sadar Bazar seat in the Delhi Assembly polls, sources said.
Maken, who was the party's face for the Delhi polls, is locked in a tough three-way battle for the seat against the...

New Delhi: With surveys predicting AAP's victory in Assembly elections, Congress on Sunday said if opinion and exit polls are correct the will of the people should prevail in a democracy and that it was ready to play whatever role people of Delhi entrust upon it.
"Well last time (in 2013...

New Delhi: Minutes after casting his vote, senior Congress leader Ajay Maken on Saturday exuded confidence that his party will do "exceedingly" well in the Delhi polls and hoped that it will form the government on its own.
"I am very hopeful that Congress is going to do exceedingly well...

Former Delhi chief minister Shiela Dikshit casted her vote, said, "We gave support to AAP earlier and that's a thing of past. Let result come, Lets see who gets how many seats." While, Ajay Maken requested every resident to exercise their right to vote.
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New Delhi: Delhi is voting on Saturday to elect the 70-member Assembly and seal the fate of 673 candidates. The election is being seen as a close contest between the Bharatiya Janata Party and Aam Aadmi Party and Congress being a distant third. Both BJP and AAP has declared former...

Voting for the 70-member Delhi Assembly begins at 8 AM on Saturday. With a high-pitched, bitterly contest election campaign behind, the fate of 673 candidates which includes 63 women in now in the hands of 1.30 crore voters. The fate of heavyweight contenders like BJP chief ministerial candidate Kiran Bedi,...

Hours after she shamed rapists by posting their video online, activist Sunitha Krishnan's car was attacked by unidentified men in Hyderabad on Thursday. The men attacked her car with stones and broke its rear window.
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Aam Aadmi Party(AAP) on Friday rejected Delhi Jama Masjid Shahi Imam Syed Ahmed Bukhari's offer of support to it and his appeal to the Muslim community to vote for the party in Delhi Assembly elections.
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New Delhi: It's now time for voters' day out in Delhi. With a high-pitched, bitterly contest election campaign behind, the fate of 673 candidates which includes 63 women in now in the hands of 1,33,09,078 voters out of which 73,89,089 are male and 59,19,127 female. Across the length and breadth...

Congress's Delhi elections campaign chief Ajay Maken on Tuesday said that BJP's vision document says north east immigrants must be protected. "Does BJP mean people from north east are from different country?" Maken asked. However, BJP leader Kiren Rijiju defended the document saying it must have been a printing or...